Former MLB Commissioner Ford Frick Seen as Effective Savior of Sport in New Biography

A new biography on the Hall of Fame commissioner details how MLB was shaped a century ago.

Ford Frick receives a copy of his Baseball Hall of Fame plaque from MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in Cooperstown on July 27, 1970. Courtesy of Nebraska Press

Ford Frick was a busy baseball commissioner.

Author Dave Bohmer brilliantly reminds us just how important one man could be as a caretaker of Major League Baseball, nearly 100 years ago, in the newly published biography—“Ford Frick: Baseball’s Third Commissioner and His Four Decades of Shaping the Game.”